Past Issues of Bandon Historical Journal

2025
Journal 42
In this issue:
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Biography and global connections, including the life of Rev. James Long of Bengal and the England family of Cork and Bandon
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Revolutionary history and commemoration, with accounts of Michael Collins’s final journey and Bandon’s remembrance of the Great War
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Social and community history, featuring a study of the Bandon Credit Union and everyday life in times of hardship
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Early modern conflict and its human impact, examining women, refugees, and civilian experience during the 1641 rebellion
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Famine-era Bandon, with a detailed examination of the workhouse and local responses to crisis
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Irish-language scholarship and clerical history centred on Dónall Ó Súilleabháin in Bandon
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Notes, excursions, and visual material, including visits to Millstreet and St. Peter’s Church, Ballymodan
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Society records, with membership and events for 2025

2024
Journal 40
In this issue:
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Scientific and environmental history, including Patrick Ganly and the geological shaping of West Cork
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Revolutionary and military history, featuring the Coolfadda Ambush and personal stories linked to the Manchester Regiment
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Legal and political sources, with extracts relating to the repatriation of the Manchester Martyrs
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Irish-language prose and poetry
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Cartographic and urban history, including a mid-nineteenth-century map of Bandon
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Industrial and economic life, with studies of distillation and Bandon’s historic distilleries
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Literary and cultural analysis, examining fiction and land agitation
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Personal correspondence and emigrant connections linking Bandon and North America
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Notes, obituaries, excursions, and additional photographs documenting community life and heritage

2024
Journal 39
In this issue:
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Revolutionary-era history, with detailed continuations on casualties in the Bandon Battalion area and the Truce in the Cork No. 111 Brigade
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Military and political biography, including a study of Captain Frank Hurley, I.R.A., and the arrival of the Civic Guard in Bandon
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Religious and ecclesiastical history, examining Methodism in Bandon and reflections on faith, translation, and belief
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Urban and industrial heritage, with an in-depth look at Bandon’s manor house and mills
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Social thought and cultural debate, featuring J.J. Walsh’s views on women’s place in society
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Scientific and cartographic history, highlighting Patrick Ganly’s contribution to West Cork geology and the mapping of Ireland
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Notes, photographs, and community records, including society visits, historic river imagery, and membership details for 2022

2022
Journal 38
In this issue:
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Revolutionary and civil war history, with detailed studies of casualties, truces, and personal memories from the War of Independence and Civil War period
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Biography and character studies, including James Connolly’s doctor, Brigadier General Seán Hales, and lesser-known local figures of national significance
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Land agitation and political movements, examining the Land League, the Land War in fiction, and West Cork’s radical tradition
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Personal and family histories, with childhood recollections from the 1920s and accounts of survival through troubled times
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Local heritage and landscape, featuring Ballymodan Graveyard viewed from above and notes on historic houses and bridges
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Irish-language scholarship and cultural memory, with studies of poets, patriots, and regional figures
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Investigative local history, revisiting a century-old kidnapping mystery involving Lord Bandon
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Society material, including notes, additional photographs, and membership details for 2021

2021
Journal 37
In this issue:
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Biographical studies of Sir George Strickland Kingston and Charles Fawcett (1878–1944)
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Bandon men in British naval service during the eighteenth century
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The memorial to the 3rd Brigade of the Irish Republican Army in Bandon
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Triple Tragedy in Bandon – the story of a fatal local accident
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The Bandon town mace (c.1700) and the Town Commissioners election of 1934
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The early years of Meanscoil na Banndan and the literary legacy of Pádraig Tyers
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Bandon connections abroad: veterans in the Invalides, Paris, and the Gaelic Sports Club of Luxembourg
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A child’s recollection of the “Troubles” in West Cork, 1920
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Notes and additional photographs relating to Bandon’s built and educational heritage

2020
Journal 36
In this issue:
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Religious, artistic, and ecclesiastical history, including studies of Bishop William Delany and sculptor John Lawlor
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Local families and community life, featuring the Sherlock family
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Policing and state history, with articles on the Royal Irish Constabulary and Sergeant William Mulherin
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Irish-language scholarship and cultural commentary
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Early medieval archaeology, presenting new evidence from Templemartin
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Literary and social analysis of West Cork society through the work of Lennox Robinson
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Military and imperial history, examining Bandon men in British forces in the eighteenth century
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Archival remembrance, including an obituary of historian and archivist Brendan O’Donoghue
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Notes and additional photographs documenting markets, excursions, and local churches

2019
Journal 35
In this issue:
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Landscape, landholding, and environment, including studies of tithe assessments and the flood gates of the River Bandon
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Revolutionary and military history, featuring accounts of ambushes and the IRA’s attempted gunrunning from Italy (1920)
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Biographical studies of notable local and national figures, including Colonel S. R. Tresilian and Daniel Murphy, church builder
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Literary and cultural history, with articles on West Cork writing, Kinsale novelists, and poetic reflection
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Irish-language scholarship and translation studies
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Architectural and ecclesiastical history relating to churches and religious art
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Political and social history, including a profile of a future prime minister with Bandon connections
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Notes and additional photographs documenting excursions, artworks, and Cumann Seanchais activities

2018
Journal 34
In this issue:
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Education and intellectual life in Bandon, including Lordan’s Classical Academy
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Place-names and landscape, with a study of the term “gneeve” in Ordnance Survey mapping
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Poetry and commemoration, including verse marking a tragic death in Kilbrittain
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Nineteenth-century Bandon in a wider context, from the Lord Lieutenant’s visit to Cork (1852) to the Bandon Food Riots of 1792
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Revolutionary and military history, including a War of Independence ambush at Gaggin and Bandon men granted the status of invalide
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Local families and figures, including the Manchester Martyr William Philip Allen
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Irish-language prose and folklore
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Notes, book reviews, and additional photographs documenting churches, houses, excursions, stained glass, and community life

2017
Journal 33
In this issue:
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West Cork history and memory, including fiction and reflections on the “Wild Geese”
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First-hand revolutionary sources, featuring the witness statement of Commandant Peter Kearney on the Battle of Crossbarry (1920)
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Biographical studies of notable local figures, including Michael Walsh and James Laurence O’Donovan
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Industrial and economic history, with a study of Allman’s Bandon Distillery (1826–1925)
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Irish-language prose and poetry, including reflections on emigration and loss
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Social change in rural Ireland, explored through the Rural Electrification Scheme
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Parish and local studies, including Kilbrogan Parish from Lewis’s Cork
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Notes and additional photographs documenting meetings, excursions, historic documents, and streetscapes in Bandon

2016
Journal 32
In this issue:
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First-hand and analytical accounts of the 1916 Rising, including a diary extract and studies of its impact on Bandon and district
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Religious and architectural history, with the building of Bandon Methodist Manse and church-related developments
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Industrial and transport history, covering flax and linen production, the West Cork Railway, and commercial links abroad
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Social and everyday life in Bandon, from life in 1834 to personal recollections and favourite legal cases
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Political and cultural commentary, including Irish-language material and reflections on local figures
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Supplementary notes and photographs revisiting local landmarks, outings, and corrections to earlier research
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Society records, with membership and programme details for 2015

2013
Journal 29
In this issue:
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Early modern and maritime history, including seventeenth-century Bandon river shipping and an uneasy visit to Castle Bernard in 1791
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Irish-language scholarship and education, with studies of school visits, rural travel, and cultural memory
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Biography and ecclesiastical history, featuring Bishop John England, Fr. Thomas Shinnick, and an appreciation of Ted Harte
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Social and labour history, examining farm labourers in the 1880s and controversial agricultural practices in West Cork
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Local landscape and heritage, with detailed studies of Kilbrogan Church and graveyard and the story behind Jack Applebe’s Cross
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Women’s history and education, highlighting Dora Allman as an early female medical graduate
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Literary and cultural contributions, including ballads by Patrick Jones and a contemporary book review
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Visual and community history, with photographs spanning church life, town walls, excursions, and festivals
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Society records, including membership, programme details for 2012, and editorial notes

2012
Journal 28
In this issue:
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Economic and industrial history, including a study of Bandon’s textile industry and early telephone services
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Creative responses to history, with a one-act play based on the Kilmichael Ambush
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Nineteenth-century literary and historical writing on Bandon and its hinterland
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Clerical and parish history, featuring Fr Thomas Shinnick P.P. (1778–1814)
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Revolutionary period studies, including volunteer casualties at Brinny and Kilmichael
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Local families and landed estates, with a detailed account of the Bernards of Bandon (1639–1921)
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Biography and popular history, including the real-life story behind “Private Ryan”
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Additional photographs documenting Bandon streetscapes, bridges, excursions, and early twentieth-century town life

1994
Journal 25
In this issue:
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Local families and landed history, including the O’Mahonys of Kinelmeaky and their legacy
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Literary and historical scholarship on Bandon and its writers
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Cultural critique and social commentary, from sporting history to public debate
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Biography and remembrance, including tributes to Tomás Mac Seoin and other notable figures
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Bandon’s wider connections, with an account of a visit to Bandon, Oregon
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Memoir and reprinted sources, including reminiscences of Ballymoney and Ballineen
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Health, society, and mortality in historical perspective
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Transport and urban history, featuring Allman’s tramway in Bandon
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Social and musical life, with concert programmes from the 1930s
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Additional photographs documenting excursions, visitors, and streetscapes

2008
Journal 24
In this issue:
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Built and landscape heritage, including a study of Lord Bandon’s Ice House
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Rural and agricultural life, with Daniel Corkery’s Fairs and nineteenth-century excursions from Bandon
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Military and revolutionary history, featuring R.S.M. John M. Ring and Volunteer Michael McLean
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Social and cultural life in the twentieth century, including a 1930s concert programme and memories of “Bandon Week” (1973)
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Biography and remembrance, including tributes to Finola Keyes McDonnell and local figures
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Irish-language history and cultural commentary relating to Droichead na Bandan
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Community organisations and heritage activism, with an interview on the West Cork Heritage Centre and community co-operative
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Notes and additional photographs documenting excursions, streetscapes, bridges, and everyday life in Bandon

2005
Journal 21
In this issue:
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Political and landed history, opening with the first part of a major study on the rise of Richard Boyle
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Cultural origins and local tradition, exploring the beginnings of The Humours of Bandon
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Sporting achievement, recounting the Boston Marathon victory by a Bandon-born runner in 1903
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Remembrance and appreciation, including a memorial tribute to Risteárd Ó Glaisine and a reflection on Bandon: 400 Years of History
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Revolutionary and nationalist history, with studies of the Manchester Martyrs and reprinted recollections of a rebel
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Religious and ecclesiastical history, featuring an account of the Bandon Methodist Church
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Biography and popular memory, including the story of Timothy “Thady” Murphy and a study of labour leader Pat Deasy
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Visual and society records, documenting visits by local history societies and the 25th anniversary celebrations of Cumann Seanchais
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Society administration, with programme details for 2004 and membership information

2004
Journal 20
In this issue:
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Political and social history, including The Manchester Martyrs (Part 1) and the founding of Cumann Seanchais na Banndan
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Eighteenth-century West Cork through contemporary accounts of towns and countryside (1748)
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Local families and figures, including the England family of Bandon and Corkman James Vincent Murphy
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Bandon and wider world connections, from the Dardanelles campaign to continental Europe
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Irish-language scholarship on early twentieth-century poetry and criticism
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Reflections on famine in West Cork and personal memoirs of early life in Bandon
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Community life and achievement, including All-Ireland bowling champion Denny Murphy (1957)
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Local records and administration, featuring the Bandon Skellig List (1843) and the Bandon Union, 1880–1881
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Supplementary photographs relating to education and local history

2003
Journal 19
In this issue:
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Biography and emigration, featuring the first part of a study of Thomas England, a Bandon-born architect who made his career in California
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Educational history in Bandon, with an in-depth examination of the Hamilton High School premises and the Bandon Endowed School
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Revolutionary period documentation, including British Army inquiry material on the casualties of the Crossbarry ambush
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Parish and ecclesiastical history, with studies of Holy Trinity Parish, Rathclarin
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Industrial and environmental history, exploring limestone burning at Anac’Hali and landlord–tenant relations
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Social welfare and governance, examining the Bandon Poor Law Guardians in the early 1870s
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Irish-language literature, with selected verses from Fear Feasa Ón Cháinte of Curravordy
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Personal memoir, beginning with My Early Years, recalling life in Butlerstown, Bandon
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Visual and photographic records, including nineteenth-century views of Watergate and Bandon Railway goods facilities
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Society activity and administration, with programme details for 2002 and membership information
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2001
Journal 17
In this issue:
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Religious and social history in Bandon, including the visits of John and Charles Wesley and the development of Methodism
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Political life and local elections, examining Bandon before and after the Parnell Split
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Revolutionary period history, with a detailed account of Easter Week 1916 and the Ballinadee Battalion of the Irish Volunteers
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Irish-language scholarship and biography, featuring a study of Thaddeus O’Mahony as scholar and poet
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Industrial and urban history, including a reprinted account of the 1898 fire at Pope’s Timber Mill
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Agricultural and intellectual life, with an appreciation of George Rye and his work Considerations on Agriculture
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Built heritage, with a comprehensive history of Kilbrittain Castle
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Emigration and memory, recounting chance encounters with Bandon men abroad
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Illustrated material and visual records, including historic chapels, aerial photography, and Lawrence Collection images
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Society activities and administration, with programme details for 2000 and membership information

2000
Journal 16
In this issue:
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Local character and cultural memory, including reflections on the “Humours of Bandon” and the life of Captain Francis O’Neill
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Economic and social history, tracing Ireland’s currency from the pound to the euro
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Folklore and education, featuring material from the 1937 Schools’ Folklore Collection in Clonakilty
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Revolutionary period history, with the concluding instalment of The National Struggle 1913–21 pictorial series
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Travel and tourism, including a reprint from the 1854 Illustrated Handbook for Ireland covering the Cork–Bandon–Killarney route
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Local and international connections, examining Bandon links with New Zealand and broader Irish migration
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Institutional and architectural history, including studies of Dunmanway Model School and Shinagh House
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Civic and popular culture, with articles on bands, banners, and public commemorations
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Illustrated material and rare photographs, including Michael Collins, Sam Maguire, and nineteenth-century engravings
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Society business, with programme details for 1999 and membership information

1998
Journal 14
In this issue:
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Local biography and political history, including a detailed study of George Bennett and Daniel O’Connell’s 1839 visit to Bandon
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Agricultural and rural practices in West Cork, examining the sourcing and use of sea sand by farmers
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Famine-era history, with a reprinted account of Fr. Daniel McSwiney
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Education and folklore, featuring material from the 1937 Schools’ Folklore Collection
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Revolutionary period documentation, with a pictorial record of Crossbarry during the War of Independence
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Social and economic development, including early banking in Bandon and the town’s role in rural electrification
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Transport and everyday life, with a retrospective on Bandon Railway Station in the 1950s
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Visual records and commemorative material, including historic photographs, monuments, and society notes for 1997

1997
Journal 13
In this issue:
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Education and schooling in Bandon, including studies of M. Édouart, Bandon Grammar School (1937), and school folklore
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Built and artistic heritage, featuring Timoleague Castle and historic chapel studies
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Political and popular history, with contemporary accounts of Daniel O’Connell in Bandon (1839)
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Sport, culture, and identity, including Sam Maguire and early twentieth-century football history
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Transport and everyday life, from rail travel to memories of the Bandon Head Post Office in the 1920s
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Revolutionary period history, with a pictorial record of the death of Charlie Hurley
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Visual and photographic records, including aerial photography of Bandon
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Literature and biography, featuring a Donn Byrne conspectus
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Society life, with membership details and programme information for 1996

1994
Journal 10
In this issue:
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Religious and community life in Bandon and West Cork, including a study of the Quakers
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Revolutionary and local memory, with accounts of the men of Kilmichael
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Trade, industry, and civic power, examining salt production and the Corporation of Salt Makers of Bandonbridge
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Transport and infrastructure, featuring Bandon’s second railway
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Irish-language history and cultural organisations, including Conradh na Gaeilge in Bandon
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Biographical and cultural studies of leading local figures
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Everyday life and commerce in the nineteenth century, with an article on shopping
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Education and civic celebration, including the Bandon Grammar School Garden Fête (1948)
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Architectural and heritage appreciation, featuring St Patrick’s Church (1836)
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Additional photographs documenting schools, groups, and community life

1993
Journal 9
In this issue:
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Ecclesiastical and religious history, including studies of notable bishops and clergy associated with Bandon
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Political and military change in early modern Ireland, examining Bandon’s shifting loyalties during the Cromwellian period
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Folklore, custom, and Irish-language cultural writing
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Castle, townscape, and built heritage, including Macroom Castle, Bandon Town Hall, and the laneways of the town
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Medical, scientific, and intellectual history, with articles on Denis Charles O’Connor and Cornelius O’Sullivan
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Revolutionary period history, featuring a pictorial record of Bandon in 1920
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Biography and remembrance, including an appreciation of Fr Christy Walsh
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Supplementary editorial notes on local families, clergy, and Brinny Mill
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Additional photographs documenting bridges, schools, and community life
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Society business and events for 1992

1992
Journal 8
In this issue:
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Emigration and global connections, tracing journeys from Bandon to Adelaide
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Political tension and security during the Emergency period
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Archival and local history projects, including renewed study of the Lismore Papers
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Social welfare and community support, with an account of the Old Bandon Coal Fund
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Revolutionary and military history, covering Bandon during 1917–1919 and conflict in the Bandon Valley
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Irish-language history and cultural commentary
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Photographic and visual records of mid-twentieth-century Bandon
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Biography and remembrance, including a tribute to Christy O’Leary
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Notes on cultural landscapes and rural life

1991
Journal 7
In this issue:
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Folklore and traditional culture, with studies of customs and local memory
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Transport and industrial heritage, focusing on Clonakilty Junction (1886–1961)
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Parliamentary and political history, including Alexander Swanston MP for Bandon Bridge
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Biography and remembrance, featuring a tribute to Bruno O’Donoghue
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Irish-language history and cultural commentary
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Urban and civic history, examining name changes in Bandon streets
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Commemoration and national memory, marking the 75th anniversary of 1916
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Religious history, with an account of Methodism in Bandon
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Bandon’s global connections, tracing links with New Bandon, New Brunswick
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Song, symbolism, and popular culture, including Maid of Erin
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Society business, with membership and programme details for 1990

1990
Journal 6
In this issue:
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Crime, justice, and social tension in nineteenth-century West Cork, including the murder of Rev. Charles Ferguson (1832)
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Biography and personal achievement, featuring a Ballinadee athlete
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Policing and administration, with studies of county inspectors of constabulary and local volunteers
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Urban and commercial life, drawing on Thom’s Directory for Bandon in 1944
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Industrial and rural heritage, including Brinny Mill
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Folklore and oral tradition from the Bandon area
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Remembrance and obituary, including a tribute to Liam Ó Donnchadha (1913–1989)
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Society life, with membership and programme details for 1989
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Historic photographs documenting religious, educational, and commercial life in mid-twentieth-century Bandon

1989
Journal 5
In this issue:
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Political and social power in nineteenth-century Ireland, explored through studies of land, authority, and eviction
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Land, infrastructure, and planning, including a proposal for a canal through West Cork
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Clerical and community figures, with biographical studies of Rev. William Hickey and Martin Doyle
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Revolutionary period memory, including Tom Barry’s wedding (1921)
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Cultural nationalism and commemoration, featuring Diarmuid Ó Donnabháin Rosa
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Education and institutions, with an article on the Allin Institute
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Environmental and urban history, documenting the Bandon floods of 1875
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Civic and associational life, including Orange Lodge activity in Bandon (1902)
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Eighteenth-century Bandon, examining the town’s development and society
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Society business, including membership and programme details for 1988

1988
Journal 4
In this issue:
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Early modern and imperial history, including the English East India Company at Dundaniel and Sir William Hull in seventeenth-century Bandon
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Townscape and social history, with a study of the residents of Devonshire Square
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Personal and documentary sources, featuring the journal of William Keyes McDonnell
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Ecclesiastical and religious life, including an article on Archbishop William Mark Duke
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Language, culture, and memory, with reflections on Irish in Bandon fifty years ago
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Everyday material culture, including a study of Bandon bottles
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Irish-language writing and cultural commentary
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Revolutionary history and personal testimony, with a memoir of involvement in Irish independence
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Society life and community activity, including the Cumann Seanchais na Banndan programme for 1987

1987
Journal 3
In this issue:
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Social and institutional history, including a detailed study of the Bandon Workhouse
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Accidents and everyday life, with an account of a tragic railway incident in Bandon
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Language, culture, and memory, examining Irish in Bandon fifty years ago
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Industrial and commercial history, featuring Bandon Steel Works (1934) and the Bandon Mint
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Material culture and landscape, including a study of a millstone from Bandon
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Archival research on nineteenth-century Bandon drawn from the Lismore Papers
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Irish-language writing and local history
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Religious life and denominations, with an article on Presbyterianism in Bandon

1985
Journal 2
In this issue:
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Industrial and economic history, including studies of Overton Cotton Mill and early manufacturing in Bandon
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Early modern landed society, with an examination of Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork, as proprietor and industrialist
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Scientific and biographical history, featuring Cornelius O’Sullivan, chemist and Bandonian
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Irish-language scholarship and local historical writing
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Urban and cartographic history, exploring sources for the development of the Irish town of Bandon
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Social and domestic life, including life at Overton House and everyday experiences in nineteenth-century Bandon
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Language and memory, with reflections on Irish in Bandon fifty years ago
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Religious, civic, and communal life, including church dedications and visits to Bandon in the late nineteenth century
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Local commerce and tradition, from mart life to the walls of Bandon
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Historic photographs documenting streets, fairs, bridges, and community bands

1984
Journal 1
In this issue:
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Early modern and landed history, including a study of Richard Boyle, First Earl of Cork (1566–1643)
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Maritime and river history, with articles on lost ships and life along the River Bandon
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Parish and ecclesiastical history, covering Bandon, Kilbrogan, and Templetrine
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Biographical and religious studies, including the life of An tAthair Domhnal Ó Suilleabháin
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Educational development in Bandon, tracing technical and vocational education from 1901 to 1980
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Language, memory, and community life, with reflections on Irish in Bandon fifty years ago
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Architectural heritage, including the new entrance to St Patrick’s Church, Bandon
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Custom and tradition, featuring articles on the Old May Fair and local life in Kilpatrick


